23S Report of the 



[Copy, Canada, No. 4.] 



Downing Street, 



27111 June, 1859. 

 Sir, — My predecessor in this Department received from the 

 Bishop of Montreal, as Vice-President of the Natural History 

 Society of Montreal, a letter dated the 6th of May last, accom- 

 panied by volumes of a periodical issued by the Society, entitled 

 the "Canadian Naturalist," which they desired to offer to his 

 Royal Highness the Prince Consort. 



His Royal Highness has requested that the expression of His 

 Royal Highness's best thanks may be conveyed to the Bishop of 

 Montreal, and to the Society over which he presides, for the 

 valuable work which they have sent to him, and the assurance of 

 the high value which he shall attach to these volumes as the sign 

 of the cultivation of the Sciences and Arts in the important North 

 American Colonies of Her Majesty. 



I have, (fee, 

 (Signed) Newcastle. 



STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES OP THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY. 



\st May, 1890. 



Sundry open accounts, % 673 9*7 



Interest due on Mortgages, 257 50 



Balance due Treasurer, 126 28 



The Society's note due July 11, 1860, 1000 00 



Mortgage favor of Wm. Watson, Esq., 400 00 



Do. Do. Wm. Nivin, Esq., 2000 00 



$4457 75 



JAMES FERRIER, Jr| 



Treasurer, 

 Montreal, 1st May, 1860. 



{^To he continued in next number.') 



